750 PUFFIN 
ception are very plainly coloured, and the majority have a spotted 
or mottled plumage suggestive of immaturity. The first Puff-bird 
known to Europeans seems to have been that described by Mare- 
grave under the name of “ Tumatia,” by which it is said to 
have been called in Brazil, and there is good reason to think that 
his description and figure—the last, comic as it is in outline and 
expression, having been copied by Willughby and many of the 
older authors—apply to the Bucco maculatus of modern Ornithology . 
a bird placed by Brisson (Ornithologie, iv. p. 524) among the 
Kingfishers. But if so, Maregrave described and figured the same 
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a, MALACOPTILA ; 0, MONACHA ; c, CHELIDOPTERA ; d, BUCCO MACULATA; é, B. TAMATIA. 
(After Swainson.) 
species twice, since his “ Muatuitui” is also Brisson’s ‘ Martin 
pescheur tacheté du brésil.” 
Mr. Sclater in his Monograph divided the Family into 7 genera, 
of which Lucco is the largest and contains 20 species. The others 
are Malacoptila and Monacha each with 7, Nonnula with 5, Chelido- 
ptera with 2, and Micromonacha and Hapaloptila with 1 species each, 
treating them precisely in the same way in 1891 (Cat. b. br. Mus, 
xix. pp. 178-208). The most showy Puff-birds are those of the 
genus Monacha with an inky-black plumage, usually diversified by 
white about the head, and a red or yellow bill. The rest call for 
no particular remark. 
PUFFIN, the common English name of a sea-bird, the Frater- 
cula arctica of most ornithologists, known, however, on various parts 
of the British coasts as the Bottlenose, Coulterneb, Pope, Sea-Parrot, 
and Tammy-Norie, to say nothing of other still more local desig- 
nations, some (as Marrott and Willock) shared also with allied 
species of Alcidx, to which Family it has, until very lately, been 
invariably deemed to belong. Of old time Puftins were a valuable 
commodity to the owners of their breeding-places, for the young 
